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2 new mesk on the face of Stete power in the Six Counties, m an attempt to win over or neutralise a substantial number of Catholics from the IRA, and thereby isolate the IRA.
In other words, to kill the IRA by kindness to the Catholic community. To replace Orange law by Whitelaw.
Yet Eddie McAteer, the leader of the Nationalist Party, was not far off the mark when he commented that the Widgery report ‘means the end of the Whitelaw mission’.
The only sensible conclusion to be drawn from this is that the Tory Government is split on the question of what to do about the situation in Ireland. That is the only explanation for the contradiction between Widgery’s carefully manufactured conclusions and Whitelaw’‘s stated policy. dancy- And so ait important.
One section of the Protestant power Structure, represented by the Alliance Party, the Northern ireland Labour Party, and the Union is the most important. Another, representing the plebian and petit-bourgeois elements headed by Craig's Vanguard movement, has decided for the Ascendancy.
Faulkner represents those who think they see a way out of this dilemma. He believes that if the present policy of the British Government can be reversed, and Britain returns to a policy of all-out war